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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Coda and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does the gulmohar tree carry?
(a) Lamp of the Woods.
(b) Flame of the Forest.
(c) First among Lumber.
(d) Crown of the Trees.

2. What was Bill’s father’s listed cause of death?
(a) Exsanguination.
(b) Ruptured appendix.
(c) Blunt force trauma.
(d) Asphyxiation.

3. How does the halal butcher from whom Tahera buys goat and chicken greet her?
(a) Hello.
(b) Assalamau Alaikum!
(c) I would sell to you.
(d) Salaam.

4. With which of the following does One: 2010 begin?
(a) “At his home in Chennai…”
(b) “Tahera came into my life barely a week ago.”
(c) “My to-be-father Bill, seven years ago, at thirty-four.”
(d) “I’m born of insecurity and need…”

5. With which of the following does One: 2010 end?
(a) “…lying silenced on an operating table, toward my own beginning.”
(b) “…her face flattened and blanched by unforgiving fluorescent light.”
(c) “…anything to keep us with the living.”
(d) “…while rain patters against the windowpanes.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Amina’s favorite teacher?

2. With what does Nafeesa seek to feed Bill when he calls on Seema at her behest?

3. In what month does Ishraaq report being conceived?

4. What do Arshad and Jemaal call themselves as they go about their vandalism?

5. What color of jean is Fiaz wearing when he meets Nafeesa and Tahera?

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